Julia – Fred Zinnemann

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Steven Spielberg
• Midnight Express – Alan Parker
• Star Wars – George Lucas

Alan Parker – Midnight Express

• Fred Zinnemann – Julia
• Robert Altman – A Wedding
• Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield

• Anthony Hopkins – Magic as Corky Withers
• Brad Davis – Midnight Express as Billy Hayes
• Peter Ustinov – Death on the Nile as Hercule Poirot

Jane Fonda – Julia as Lillian Hellman

• Anne Bancroft – The Turning Point as Emma Jacklin
• Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman as Erica Benton
• Marsha Mason – The Goodbye Girl as Paula McFadden

John Hurt – Midnight Express as Max

• François Truffaut – Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Claude Lacombe
• Gene Hackman – Superman as Lex Luthor
• Jason Robards – Julia as Dashiell Hammett

Geraldine Page – Interiors as Eve

• Angela Lansbury – Death on the Nile as Salome Otterbourne
• Maggie Smith – Death on the Nile as Miss Bowers
• Mona Washbourne – Stevie as Aunt

Julia – Alvin Sargent

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Steven Spielberg
• The Goodbye Girl – Neil Simon
• A Wedding – John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls and Robert Altman

Julia – Douglas Slocombe

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Vilmos Zsigmond
• The Duellists – Frank Tidy
• Superman – Geoffrey Unsworth

Death on the Nile – Anthony Powell

• The Duellists – Tom Rand
• Julia – Anthea Sylbert, Joan Bridge and Annalisa Nasalli Rocca
• Star Wars – John Mollo

Midnight Express – Gerry Hambling

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Michael Kahn
• Julia – Walter Murch
• Star Wars – Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew

Star Wars – John Williams

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind – John Williams
• Julia – Georges Delerue
• Saturday Night Fever – Bee Gees

Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Joe Alves

• Julia – Gene Callahan, Willy Holt and Carmen Dillon
• Star Wars – John Barry
• Superman – John Barry

Star Wars – Sam Shaw, Robert Rutledge, Gordon Davidson, Gene Corso, Derek Ball, Don MacDougall, Bob Minkler, Ray West, Michael Minkler, Les Fresholtz, Richard Portman and Ben Burtt

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Gene Cantamessa, Robert Knudson, Don MacDougall, Robert Glass, Steve Katz, Frank Warner, Richard Oswald, David Horton, Sam Gemette, Gary Gerlich, Chet Slomka and Neil Burrow
• Saturday Night Fever – Michael Colgan, Les Lazarowitz, John Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr. and John T. Reitz
• Superman – Chris Greenham, Gordon McCallum, Peter Pennell,
  Mike Hopkins, Pat Foster, Stan Fiferman, John Foster, Roy Charman, Norman Bolland, Brian Marshall, Charles Schmitz, Dick Ragusa and Chris Large

The Silent Withness – David Rolfe

Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook – Tony White

• I'll Find a Way – Beverly Shaffer
• Planet Water – Derek Williams
• Sunday Muddy Sunday – Lindsay Dale

Twenty Times More Likely – Robert Young

• How a Man Schall Be Armyd – Anthony Wilkinson
• Leonard Lewis – Safety Net
• Play Safe – David Eady

Christopher Reeve – Superman as Superman

• Brad Davis – Midnight Express as Billy Hayes
• Mary Beth Hurt – Interiors as Joey
• Melanie Mayron – Girlfriends as Susan Weinblatt

Superman – Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic and Wally Veevers